Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938
A Biography

(in progress)

If the reader wishes to find a
prose accounting of Husserl's life, there is perhaps no better source than
his own wife, Malvine Husserl. You can find a copy of her "Skizze
eines Lebensbildes von Edmund Husserl" in the journal, Husserl Studies
5: 110-125 (1988). Unfortunately, I have been unable to obtain the
appropriate permissions to publish a translation here.

This is an ongoing work, and its
often less-than-systematic account of events reflects certain interests of
its creator. Go to the
bibliography for an exhaustive and chronological listing of Husserl's writings
in print.
Please feel free to make suggestions for inclusion in this table of events (bob.sandmeyer@husserlpage.com).
N.B. This page cannot and should not be thought a substitute for Karl Schuhmann's
Husserl-Chronik
(see sources below), for which this
page owes much of its richness.

Edith Stein
enjoys a working holiday with the Husserls in Bernau for a few days

1917 Nov 8.-17.

Husserl holds 3 lectures on "Fichtes
Menschheitsideal" for military students at the University of Freiburg

1917 Dec 6.

Husserl publishes Adolf Reinach's obituary in
the Frankfurter Zeitung

1918 Jan 14.-16.

Husserl repeats his "Fichtes Menschheitsideal"
lectures for colleagues of the philosophy faculty

1918: Feb 1.-Apr 27

Husserl holidays in Bernau

1918 Apr 10

Husserl begins a correspondence with the
Göttingen physicist and mathematician, Hermann Weyl. The letter is regarding
Husserl's approval of Weyl's approach to the foundations of mathematics
(analysis) in the latter's book: Das Kontinuum. [Thanks to Richard Feist
(co754@freenet.carleton.ca)
for this information.]

1918 Nov 6.-9.

Husserl repeats his "Fichtes Menschheitsideal"
lectures for colleagues of the philosophy faculty

1919 Jan 21

Husserl's applies to name Martin Heidegger
to the post of Assistant to the Philosophy Seminar, I, which was approved by
the faculty. (See also: Heidegger, Martin. Supplements. From
the Earliest Essays to Being and Time and Beyond. Ed. by
John van Buren. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002, 27f.)

Husserl is offered a position in Berlin but
rejects the offer and, in so doing, obtains promises of financial support
for his activities of research as well as continual support for a
research assistant

1923 Summer

Husserl sends Martin Heidegger his own copy of
the Logische Untersuchungen on the occasion of the latter's
appointment to Marburg